Boxfarm benefits

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What you can achieve with boxfarm:

1. Plant almost anything anywhere -- small corners, rooftops, backyard, driveway etc.
2. No green fingers required -- it's so simple anyone can do it.
3. No need to water the plants everyday. The water reservoir needs to be topped up at longer intervals.
4. No need to apply fertilisers regularly -- slow release fertiliser strip takes care of this through one planting cycle.
5. No need to till the soil -- it's kept aerated and moisturised by the system
6. No weedings and less insect and plant disease problems
7. It's fuss free and clean -- this is important in home gardens because after all it's your house, it's not a farm.
8. Get your own really natural organic vegetables and fruits.
9. It has been proven this way of planting produces better crops with a shorter time to harvest.


Commercial applications :

Boxfarm can be applied on a commercial scale. In addition to the above advantages, boxfarm offers the following advantages:-

1. No environmental contamination due to leaching of fertilisers:
In normal farming, fertiliser eventually runs off and seeps into the water system and contaminates the environment. If you use boxfarm, the fertiliser is kept within the box, the slow release means the fertiliser is completely used up by the plants.

2. No fertiliser wastage :
In farms fertiliser get washed away by rains. In boxfarming, the plastic cover over the box prevents the rain from washing away the fertiliser. Thus preventing fertiliser wastage. This can mean substantial savings in commercialised boxfarming.

3. Topography independent:
Box farming is topograpgy independent. In a farm you do not necessarily get a perfect piece of flat land. There will be hilly and rough terrains which cannot be ordinarily farmed. There may be areas which are solid rocks with no top soil to farm. With boxfarm, you can plant anywhere and make every square foot of land productive.
Boxfarming allows the possibility of farming on barren, arid lands!

4. Soil independent:
In normal farming, you have to farm the type of plants that thrive best on the soil of your farm. That may mean farming something which may not necessarily be the best cash crop. With box farming, you can plant almost anything you want -- just use the right potting mix.

5. Minimal soil preparation:
Lots of effort is required in farming to prepare the soil before planting the crops. With box farming. this is minimised. Labour savings can be substantial.

6. The menace of flooding:
Flooding almost always wipe out the crops. With box farm, low flooding is no problem. If the flood level is below the excess water discharge hole of the box (about 5" above the ground) the flood has no impact whasoever. If the flood level rises, boxfarm allows you to salvage some of your crops by simply raising the boxes or re-positioning them on some higher ground temporarrily. Boxfarm is a mobile planting system!!
Boxfarming allows the planting of crops in low-lying flood prone areas. Simply arrange some stacking structures for the boxes.

7. Higher prices with better crops at shorter harvest:
The better crops produced by boxfarming means you command better prices. The shorter time to harvest means you get your crops to market at the beginning of the season where prices are higher.

8. The lower maintenance cost:
Less watering, weeding, tillage, fertilising, insects and diseases --- all these mean significantly lower maintenance cost for the commercial farmer.

9. Simultaneous planting:
Whilst one crop is maturing, you can start seeding in nurseries much earlier so that when one crop is harvested, you are immediately ready to plant the next crop. The production turnarround time is reduced significantly. The financial benefits in this is very substantial.

10. No need for crop rotation:
Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same space in sequential seasons for various benefits such as to avoid the build up of pathogens and pests that often occurs when one species is continuously cropped. Crop rotation also seeks to balance the fertility demands of various crops to avoid excessive depletion of soil nutrients. A traditional component of crop rotation is the replenishment of nitrogen through the use of green manure in sequence with cereals and other crops. It is one component of polyculture. Crop rotation can also improve soil structure and fertility by alternating deep-rooted and shallow-rooted plants.
Crop rotation means less options for the farmer. You can't plant what you want...which is the best cash crop that gives you max returns.
This is a non-issue with boxfarming. You can simply replace the potting mix and continue to grow what is best for you.

11. No time lost for land to fallow:
Farm land needs to be rested or allowed to fallow. This is an unproductive time. With boxfarming, there is no need to fallow. Just change the potting mix after several cycles and continue to be productive.

12. Organic farming -- no waiting time:
To convert to organic farming the land needs to be prepared and a waiting period of about 3 years for all prior fertiliser and insecticide chemicals to be washed away by nature. That's 3 years out of cash for the farmer! With box farmer, you can convert to organic farming anytime and serve a higher end market.

13. Increasing the farming space:
Boxfarms can be stacked. A simple structure can be set up to allow the boxes to be staked up 2 and maybe even 3 levels. In this way, the farming space can be increased 10% to 20% which can mean an incredible increase in revenues.


Conclusion:
Boxfarming indeed has such great potential for commercial application. The initial capital outlay for the boxes will be quickly outstipped by the rich paybacks that boxfarming offers.


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